A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Line with 2 Origins
The provably undrawable line with two origins illustrates a simple but important topological property
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
Change Your Open Sets, Change Your Life
The concept of the open set is fundamental in topology. What is it, and why does it matter?
Take an Epic Quest across a Hyperbolic Surface
David Madore's online mazes let you explore complicated hyperbolic surfaces from the comfort of your favorite web browser.
Everything Looks Better in the Hyperbolic Plane
Make a yourself or your favorite mathematician into a work of art as a tiling of the hyperbolic plane.
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: the Infinite Earring
Topology is all about squishing and stretching; distance shouldn't matter. But the infinite earring illustrates the delicate interplay between topology and geometry.
Make Mathemusic with Me at Bridges
Join me for a workshop on mathematics, temperament, and pitch perception at the Bridges math+art conference in Baltimore.
The World's Most Accurate Parquet Floor–Based Personality Test
Are you a neurotic loner or a charismatic cult leader? Try this highly scientific personality test based on a parquet floor from one of Antoni Gaudí's Modernista masterpieces to find out...
What It Feels like to Be Cedric Villani
The Fields Medalist's memoir gives us a glimpse into the emotional highs and lows of being a passionate mathematician.
Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter
Fabienne Serriere wants to hack an industrial knitting machine to make cellular automata scarves, and you can back her project on Kickstarter.
The Unbearable Literalism of Being a Mathematician or Why I Hate Literary Disclaimers
Mathematicians, like kleptomaniacs, take things literally. This is the story of how I finally snapped and wrote a strongly worded blog post about why literary disclaimers annoy me.
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